Five reasons why Microsoft can’t compete
Betanews: Microsoft's problems are strategic and structural. The company is by no means near collapse. It's master of two very profitable monopolies. The doomsayers should take their end-of-the-world rhetoric elsewhere.
My goal here is to identify problems so that maybe, just maybe, they can be solved. You can't solve a problem you haven't identified as being one.
With that introduction, here are the five reasons why Microsoft struggles to compete outside its established businesses, offered in no order of importance:
